Why I Hate Summer

Bug spray, where would I be without you?

I don’t like summer, and it’s getting really warm around here. Here’s my explanation in verse.

King of Spring

Have you made your offering to the Great Plum this year?

“In written pain and summer’s due

From tilled soil and dawning’s vibrant hue

So the god of Plums speaks to you.”

Tidal Action

Surfing is cruel sport.

I can’t surf. It’s all about balance, and I have very little in my life, my body, and in my head. On the other hand Pirate could probably surf with the best. Knight and I can be the ones who get swept away.

Hanging on a Prayer

They’re good for moral support.

Some people aren’t that helpful in a crisis. Also, I’m just not sure if I’m cut out to be a poet. William Faulkner once said a failed poet is a short story writer and failing that, you become a novelist. If I fail at being a novelist, do I go on Twitter? Maybe a failed novelist is a blogger.

Rain

One for the quiet moments.

The falling drops upon my head

Tell me that I am alive;

Not dead.

Liar’s Test

The punishment for lying is death. Telling the truth is also punishable by death.

It’s funny how children, most of them, can’t lie very well. Actually, a lot of adults can’t lie well either so what am I saying? I guess I’m saying that lying is bad, and you shouldn’t do it. I find running away works a lot better.

Worth While

It just takes time.

If I had a thousand years, I’d create a forest of legends. The passing of centuries must be so strange for trees, because they don’t do much but grow as the years pass.

But time is a lot quicker for us. For some, it’s too quick. But when we’re gone, the forest remains. (Unless an idiot burns it down.)

At the Wall

Some days everything feels like…

From mind to word and action less

Regardless of work or ceaseless rest

I’m staring at that damnable wall

As I sit in these empty, quiet halls

All my lofty aspirations will in the end

Fall.

Sunflower Parade

Sunflowers! March along with them each day! I hate sunflower seeds, so let’s have a parade! …Something like that.

Sunflowers! Hooray!